Before manually seeding the cluster, check that systems that will join the cluster are able to send and receive heartbeats to each other. Confirm there is no possibility of a network partition condition in the cluster.

Before manually seeding the cluster, do the following:

Check that systems that will join the cluster are able to send and receive heartbeats to each other.

Confirm there is no possibility of a network partition condition in the cluster.

To manually seed the cluster, type the following command:

/sbin/gabconfig -x

Note there is no declaration of the number of systems in the cluster with a manual seed. This command will seed all systems in communication with the system where the command is run.

So, make sure not to run this command in more than one node in the cluster.